Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The London Times has $8o0,000 worth of much terrified.
 Carl Schurz can use the English language well, for foreigner. Mayor Hewitt must feel rather small if his attention has been called" to Schurz's letter, and we suppose that it has.
 This will be very interesting day in New York city, and whether it is decided tonight that the Sun is left by the World, or the World by the Sun, the night will be a dark one for the one that is left.
 The decision of the Supreme court of Utah ordering the appointment of a receiver for the Mormon church property in excess of the statutory limit of $50, ,000 is a hard blow to the Mormon managers. Tbe church leaders had attempted to complicate matters by se- curing the appointment of trustees under the Tucker -Edmunds act before the federal au- thorities had had an opportunity to act, but the order of probate judge is swept aside and that immense property which the saints have accumulated will now go into the hands of an officer duly commissioned to manage it..
 Boston appears to be the only large city in the United States where the fire insurance business is profitable. During the last nine months the estimated net profits of fire un- derwriting in Boston have been about 35 per cent as against 28 per cent. in the year 1886, while, as is we'll known, in the spring of this year there was general and considerable re- duction made in the insurance rates in the business section of the city-a reduction made in consequence of the highly satisfac. tory results that had attended the work of house to house inspection established by the Boston board of fire underwriters.
 The proposed colonization of all the Dunk ards of the United States in the Panhandle" section of Texas is large undertaking. The Dunkards are peculiar religious sect whose chief tenets are literal belief in the teach ings of the gospel and in abhorrence of war. During the civil war both sides respected their seruples against fighting and exempted them from service in the army. A misprint in the Confederate statute on the subject made it appear that 'drunkards" were ex- empted. This was good news to the red nosed men of the South, ; but their satisfaction was short-lived, as the mistake waa soon cor rected. Texas is to be congratulated upon securing these honest, industrious people.
 A transaction in bonds in Chicago the other day illustrated how roundabout busl- ness methods sometimes are in spite of all the modern arrangements for making them easy and direct. A Chicago bank bought 1n Chicago lot of securities which were sold by a broker for the account of Boston firm. The next day the Chicago bank sold the same securities at little advance and when they came to be paid for it was disclosed that the buyer was another Boston firm directly next door to the original sellers. Here was transaction that might have been made as easy as not in Boston by the seller stepping next door and making the sale to his imme- diate neighbor. Instead, however, the secur- ities were sent to Chicago tor sale and were taken up on buying order that also came all the way from Boston. Commissions were paid on both sides, exchange was lost; be- sides in the transfer the intermediate Chica- go buyer got little profit for himself
 The Hartford Courant forcibly says: When government becomes so weak or so dema-